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MetPy Mondays #326 - Use KDTree and MetPy to Find the Nearest METAR

31 March 2025

In this week's MetPy Monday, we show you how to find the closest weather observation station to any location using a combination of: MetPy's built-in station metadata, scipy.spatial.KDTree for fast spatial search, and GeoPandas for accurate geodesic distance calculation.
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